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Hi So my guys never seem to grow very quickly, I don't want extremely fast growth but I was expecting my younger ones to be growing faster than they are as I think they are a lot smaller than they should be...

For example I've had Tiny for about 10 months now this is when I got her:

This is now

Now Tiny has had a few incidents of illness and has put a lot of energy into regrowing fins, but I was still expecting to see more growth than this!

Then there are my fry. They hatched in November last year so they are about 8 months old now...

but the biggest ones are still only about 4cm long..I feel like a lot of that was due to me keeping too many in the beginning so they didn't have enough space.

I feed a Staple of NLS Pellets 3-4 times a day, I don't measure how much I put in, but they all go for it and eat it within a few minutes. I try to drop it in a bit at a time and stop putting it in when they are all settling down to chew and not looking for more.

I'm trying to add in bloodworms on a more regular basis now, before they just got it every so often, the last few weeks I've been giving them a few cubes between the 8 of them in the main tank once a week, would feeding them more often help?

Occasionally they get NLS Algae Gel or Nutri Gel, Again would making that a regular thing help?

Is there anything else I can do to help them? I want them to get the best they can and at the moment I feel like I'm slowing them down which is the last thing I want to do!

Disclaimer: I wouldn't be super worried about making them grow if they are healthy.

Feeding Bloodworms will help with growth, since that is a high-protein food. I'd go for 2-3x/week in replacement of one meal of pellets per day. As far as the gel goes, variety is the spice of life. You could add it to your rotation as often as you want.

Here's an example of what I would do for meals, in a weekly format. The foods are ordered by digestion, with the hardest-to-digest foods being fed in the later hours when applicable, so that they have all night to go through the fish's system.

Monday: NLS AlgaeGel , FBW, Pellets

Tuesday: NLS AlgaeGel, NLS NutriGel, Pellets

Wednesday: NLS AlgaeGel, FBW, NLS NutriGel

Thursday: FBW, Pellets, Pellets

Friday: NLS AlgaeGel, NLS NutriGel, Pellets

Saturday: NLS NutriGel, Pellets, Pellets

Sunday: FBW, NLS AlgaeGel, NLS NutriGel

The only goals here are to keep things fresh for the fish taste-wise, and to make sure that pellets are fed in the evenings because they are less-easily-digested than the gels or the FBW. This way we don't have to worry about floatiness or that the fish are getting enough variety. This is only a guideline, though, so you could mix it up however you wanted.

Thanks Chelsea! I just get worried they I'm not giving them enough when they stay so small! I'm not wanting to force them to get massive or anything, just make sure they are growing at a healthy weight. I don't mind if they aren't huge just as long as I know they are getting enough food and the right things That helps a lot x3